capturing an swf stream from the web?

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:37 AM, John McGregor <mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
>>
>> thanks for htis, john.  unfortunately, with the particular flash animation
>> i mention here, I
>> can't seem to get this to work.  Automatic conversion fails silently,
>> while manual conversion fails with a not-so-helpful error message
>> ("conversion failed").  do you have any idea what i might be able to do
>> to improve the outcome?  if you try this file on your system, does the
>> download succeed?  knowing that it does would be a pretty big help.
>> Anyway, thanks again for your assistance.
>>
>> matt
>
> It works fine with Mepis 8. However that it failed for you may be due to the
> fact that the standard Debian ffmpeg package has most of the transcoding
> capabilities crippled due to patent problems in the U.S. I use the ffmpeg
> package that is available from the Mepis community restricted repos which is
> located outside of the U.S. Mepis 8 is heavily based on Lenny so it may work
> for you as well (if you are using Debian, Mepis, or Sidux).
>
> Restricted repo : deb http://restricted.mepis-deb.org/mepiscr/repo/ mepis8cr
> restricted restricted-non-free
>

For Debian see http://debian-multimedia.org/

Pretty sure there's nothing that their ffmpeg package can't handle :-)

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